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Highly skilled migration from Albania: an assessment of current trends and the ways ahead Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE MIGRATION SOCIAL SERVICES ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION HUMAN RESOURCES STANDARD OF LIVING This paper discusses the developed countries' immigration policies that have become increasingly skewed in favour of skilled migrants (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport 2003; OECD 2003) who, while bringing economic benefits, are also seen to assimilate more easily into their host societies. This trend has raised considerable concern among policy makers in developing countries, who are wary of having to bear the costs of educating skilled workers, only to loose the most entrepreneurial and talented of these to more developed countries. As argued by Kapur and McHale (2005), since people endowed with a high level of human capital are essential to institution building and institutional reforms, the loss of these personnel (referred to also as the 'brain drain') could potentially trap developing countries in poverty. 2026-09-30T11:44:36Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352926.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Highly_skilled_migration_from_Albania_an_assessment_of_current_trends_and_the_ways_ahead/33352926 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0